The God of Carnage, by Yasmina Reza, translated from the French by Christopher Hampton
2008
Became the film Carnage.
• During the course of one evening, two sets of parents try to get a handle on a physical fight that occurred between their two sons.
Biting and caustic, spot-on dark humor. Each of the four characters has a back story that mirrors the overall situation in some way, and ultimately betrays them to be the root cause of, and worse than, the children themselves. However, an entitlement factor of well-to-do/upwardly mobile hetero parenting is slightly off-putting to this reader, though that may be the point.
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